Need help on a paper...

Lolita

angels and demons

Mein Kampf

I'm hoping to find more topics on the authors themselves, like things they did in their lives that were controversial, or deaths, murders, things people don't know... etc etc

Tennessee Williams was an interesting guy. He was gay in a less forgiving time, and in A Streetcar Named Desire a character was driven to suicide after a homosexual affair. The movie couldn't show this so it was altered to a "weakness."

His sister was given a lobotomy.

You should look into him.

There's also L. Ron Hubbard and his venture from sci-fi into creating Scientology. Can't get much more controversial.

Salmon Rusdie was condemned to death for his writings. The fatwa was lifted not that long ago but some still feel he should die for The Satanic Verses.

Lots to choose from.

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Edited by Rambino - 30 July 2008 at 12:06am

Yes, he did. They say he held it in his teeth while he was putting in the drops. In it went, and the rest is history.

Rambino: What did I post that was wrong?

Stephen King is pretty screwed up...

Robert Anson Heinlein.

For him you will need 3 works that are fairly easy to get through.

1) Stranger in a Strange Land
2) Starship Troopers
3) Expanded Universe

Stranger in a Strange Land was burned/banned for it's satirical take on organized religion, specifically Christianity and Roman Catholicism.

Starship Troopers has about as much to do with that crap-fest sci-fi flick with Denise Richards as an Uwe Boll film does with it's video-game subject matter. The HUGE factor in Starship Troopers is the fact that service to the public is what guarantees citizenship and the right to have a voice in government. Heinlein goes into great detail in the afterward of one of his essays in "Expanded Universe" about the misconceptions that so many people have about his message in S/T. He also covers some of the controversy over "Stranger in a Strange Land," but that novel has been the subject of so many inquests and papers itself that there should be no shortage of materiel.

Finally, "Expanded Universe" contains many of RAH's essays and speeches that were written between the 1950's and 1970's concerning government, economics, and the need for the US to gain ground in scientific matters. His essays are just as pertinent and inflammatory today as they were over 30 years ago. One simply need replace the USSR with the PRC, N. Korea, or Al Quaeda.